Switzerland has refused to sign a protracted deal with Croatia, initially agreed over a year ago, which would have given Croatians unrestricted access to the Swiss employment market. The Swiss say it’s not viable “in its current form”. Simultaneously, the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) has called on Switzerland’s government to quickly limit immigration to the country from Eastern Europe.... 

The Indian embassy in Qatar says over 450 Indian migrant workers have died in the Persian Gulf state over the past two years. The embassy said on Monday the deaths occurred in 2012 and the first 11 months of 2013 but did not give details about the circumstances of the deaths or where they occurred, AFP reported. It said on average about 20 Indian migrants died in Qatar each month and the toll peaked... 

Brussels has frozen research grants for Swiss universities worth hundreds of millions of euros in retaliation after Switzerland voted to cap the number of immigrants entering the country in a nationwide referendum. The retaliatory move by the EU comes just one day after Switzerland refused to sign a ‘freedom of movement’ agreement with Croatia, which would have given Croatians unrestricted access... 

Cops have killed well over 5,000 Americans since 9/11. Many of these killings have occurred during no-knock raids, which have risen by 4000% since the 1980s. Iraqi insurgents, by comparison, have killed around 3,500 Americans in Iraq since 9/11 in Operation Iraqi “Freedom.” It is not just Iraq. The number of Americans killed by police also now exceeds the number of Americans killed by Afghan insurgents. Afghan... 

President Obama is mulling options in a case allegedly involving a phantom American terrorist operating form an unidentified country overseas. U.S. officials say guidelines issued by the White House tie Obama’s hands despite the supposed threat posed by the terrorist living in a country that refuses to allow drone strikes against targets singled out by the Pentagon. The strikes were previously... 

The number of Americans that renounced their citizenship was 221 percent higher in 2013 than it was in 2012. That is a staggering figure, and it is symptomatic of a larger trend. In recent years, a lot of really good people with very deep roots in this country have made the difficult decision to say goodbye to the United States permanently. A few actually go to the trouble to renounce their citizenship,... 

Some 1,400 Saudi Arabian citizens have joined foreign-backed militant groups which are fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a report says. Saudi Arabia’s newspaper Al Watan said in a recent report that most Saudi militants, who have poured into Syria after the outbreak of the crisis in 2011, are teenagers. The report added that around 20 percent of the Saudi militants... 

Swiss people have voted in favor of limiting the immigration of European job seekers, prompting the European Commission to announce reassessment of relations with Switzerland. Sunday’s poll results showed that Swiss voters narrowly backed the nationalists’ call for curbing EU immigration. Voters endorsed proposals to reintroduce immigration quotas with the EU – a move which has the potential... 

The tragic death of Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman reveals the complete and total fraud of the War of Drugs which is now in its fourth decade. News outlets report that Hoffman died from an extremely strong type of heroin which is processed from opium out of Afghanistan. Before the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by U.S. and NATO forces, the landlocked country in Central Asia accounted... 

Amateur video shot in Austin, Texas this weekend destroys the establishment lie that police can and will protect you whenever needed, and also highlights the depths to which American society has degraded. Watch as a group of at least six macho thugs aggressively assaults three defenseless hippies, instigating an unnecessary confrontation in which one man is kicked in the head while he is on the ground. Though... 

The much vaunted multi-million dollar security ring put in place at taxpayer expense for this year’s Super Bowl was easily penetrated by a man with a fake pass and an excuse that he was “late for work,” yet another example of how government security theater cannot protect you and is a colossal waste of money. Prior to the big game, authorities boasted of their lavish preparations for Super... 

Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison Australian authorities have confirmed for the first time that they are turning boats carrying asylum-seekers back to Indonesia as part of Canberra’s military-led Operation Sovereign Borders crackdown on people-smuggling. “What I have confirmed today is… that any vessel that seeks to illegally enter Australian waters will be intercepted and will... 

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been lauded for defending his country, after drafting a code of behaviour for the hoards of asylum seekers that threatens to deport them for ‘irritating people, disturbing someone or spitting or swearing in public’. Australia’s tough stance over asylum seekers from Indonesia has soured relations between the two countries in recent months and this document... 

After seven months of treatment in a special rehabilitation center in Boston, the 16-year old Myrto Papadomichelaki returned yesterday to continue her fight in a special rehabilitation center in the city of Larissa . Myrto on December 10th had undergone a special surgery to drain a powerful muscle relaxant, the surgery was successful, resulting in the girl being discharged and able to return home... 

Famous American whistleblower Edward Snowden faces assassination attempts by the British foreign intelligence service, MI6, a former security officer tells Press TV. Wayne Madsen, a former National Security Agency (NSA) officer, said the threat has increased after the failed attempts to kidnap Snowden, who gained fame due to his revelations about NSA spying activities. “In early December 2013, I...